Van Aert gave victory to Laporte at Ghent-Wevelgem in another Jumbo exhibition

From now on, it will be necessary to establish March 26 as the Jumbo-Visma team’s generosity day. If in the seventh and final stage of the 102nd Volta Ciclista a Catalunya held in Montjuïc Roglic is a cousin gave him a partial victory Barcelona his great rival in this edition of the Catalan round, the Belgian world champion Remco Evenepoel, in Belgium, in Ghent-Wevelgemthe generosity of the wasp development was repeated.

The difference is that this time the generosity took place between two colleagues from the same team, in between Wout Van Aert and Christophe Laportethat the Dutchman is the favored cyclist, which is not the first time this has happened in the yellow formation.

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In a classic marked by bad conditions, the cold, the rain and the slippery asphalt of 260 kilometers between hills and cobblestone sections, passing, among others, the hard hills of Kemmelberg up to three times, the classic will break with 53 kilometers to go, when at the entrance of the climb to monteberg, taking advantage of the legs and the narrowness of the road, Van Aert he launched a devastating attack that no one could follow.

Van Aert, who two days ago won the E3 Classic Sax waited for his colleague report and both make room and benefit from the little understanding that their pursuers have, which is between lack of understanding and falling, as in Mohoricor the predecessors of Ganna and Kwiatkowskito stand at the finish line with more than enough margin to have a beer.

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In the last meter they hugged each other, looked at the car and Van Aert surrender victory to Laporte, who added his 27th victory to his record, and who crossed the finish line with his arms pointing at Van Aertcom saying, it was thanks to him.

RANKINGS

1.Christophe Laporte (Fra/Jumbo-Visma) 5h49’39”
2. Wout Van Aert (Bel/Jumbo-Visma) id.
3.Sep Vanmarcke (Bel/Israel-Premier Tech) at 1’56”
4.Frederik Frison (Bel/Lotto Dstny) id.
5. Mads Pedersen (Din/Trek-Segafredo) id.
6.Mikkel Bjerg (Din/UAE Team Emirates) id.
7.Alexis Renard (Fra/Cofidis) at 2’04”
8. Olav Kooij (PB/Jumbo-Visma) id.
9.Danny Van Poppel (PB/Bora-hansgrohe) id.
10.Daniel Mclay (Gbr/Team Arkéa-Samsic) id.